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FEATURE
I don’t underestimate how challenging this is and will be.
Clinicians—psychiatrists in particular—have long been the
most powerful voices at the table. However, this urgently
needs to change.
We need to find a way to ensure the consumer and family/
whānau voice is equal to the clinician voice, so each view
is equally respected, heard and included in shared decision
making.
Meaningful consumer participation from people, and their
families/whānau, who have experienced the distress and
challenge of mental ill health and/or addiction, will enhance
credibility within modern and progressive mental health and
addiction services in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Those are services that may already know their own limita-
tions, but in some cases, they lack the required solutions to
remedy those issues, or there are barriers to the implemen-
tation of those solutions, if they are known.
Personally, I’ve been working and volunteering in the
mental health sector for over 30 years and I genuinely feel
that now is a really good time to make changes for the better
in mental health and addiction. We are achieving some
significant traction for change in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
However, it is of the utmost importance that consumers
and their family/whānau are at the heart of this change and
are fully enabled to influence it, at all levels.
Shaun McNeil is national
consumer engagement
advisor for the Health
Quality & Safety
Commission mental health
and addiction (MHA)
quality improvement
programme.
About Shaun McNeil
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